Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.
I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality. ' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
I think there can always be beauty in struggle.